What Bands/Solo Artists have you seen live? :) (1 Viewer)

[JonZ]

Kiss (1977 - I was 8 years old. Dad took me. Will always be grateful for that)
Accept (Awesome awesome awesome)
Dio
Ozzy
Krokus
Motley Crue (Twice)
Judas Priest
Anthrax
Slayer
Megadeth
Metallica (Twice,back in the days when they were a good band)
Sepultura
DRI
Soulfly
Snot (The BEST live show Ive ever seen)
Death

Ashamed to admit I saw:

White Lion (Opened for Krokus)
Dokken (Opened for Priest)
Loudness (Opened for Motely Crue at the Garden)


Wish I had seen in their prime:

Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Rush
Ozzy w/ Randy Rhodes
Jimi Hendrix
Voivod
Iron Maiden

 

[Chris*Liberti]

Too many to list:

Primus about 10 times
Nirvana
Metallica
Butthole Surfers
Porno for Pyros
Janes Addiction
Little Feat
Night Ranger
Beastie Boys
Allman Bros. Band
Van Halen
Alice in Chains
Ramones
Built to Spill
Yo la Tengo, 3 or 4 times
Stereolab
Suicidal Tendencies
Tool
Tom Waits, 2 times
Charlie Hunter
McCoy Tyner
John Scofield
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

and this is only the tip of the iceberg I know I am forgetting a lot of bands I have seen

 

[Clint B]

Sparing you (many of) the local bands that you may not have heard of, the bands/artists I can remember seeing are:

Springsteen--the best live act ever! (2x w/E Street Band; 1x solo)
Van Halen (w/Sammy Hagar)
Eagles (in 2001, so they were minus Felder)
Bruce Hornsby (1x w/the Range; 1x solo)
Vertical Horizon (3x, all before they got "big")
Elvis Costello (w/Steve Nieve)
Peter Gabriel (2x)
Tori Amos (1x w/band; 1x solo)
Loverboy
Metallica
Norah Jones (summer 2002; fantastic show!)
Scorpions
Dokken
Clapton
Paul McCartney
The Stones
Kingdom Come
Madonna (1987, I think)
Jackopierce (2x)
Paula Cole
Dave Matthews Band
Boston
Martina McBride
Level 42
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Pushmonkey (many times)
Black Crowes
Living Colour
Rufus Wainwright
Huey Lewis and the News
Ricky Van Shelton
The Hooters
Duane Eddy and the Rebels
Urge Overkill
Sevara
David Wilcox
Brave Combo (many times)
Kiss (1996 reunion tour)
Yes (that big tour where tons of people were in the band)
Billy Joel
Stone Temple Pilots
Reba McEntire
Richard Marx
Pearl Jam
Garth Brooks
Stryper
Pam Tillis
Steve Wariner
John Anderson
James Taylor

 

[Mark Murphy]

Tool (5X)
Nine Inch Nails
Sevendust(2X)
Limpbizcit (3X) (sorry if Mispelled, more embarassed to have seen them 3 times)
A Perfect Circle
Godsmack(2X) (saw them perform in a bar and had a drink w/the band before I even knew who they were)
Stone Temple Pilots
Staind (6X)
Mobb Deep (2X)
Run-DMC
Wu-Tang Clan
Rage Against the Machine
Cranberries
Aerosmith
Linkin Park (met them after the show, nice guys)
Korn (2X)
Bell Biv DeVoe (Don't laugh)
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Incubus

I know I've seen others but I can't remember at the moment.

 

[Christopher_S]

Wow, this is gonna exercise brain muscles that'll be sore for days. Let's see...

Huey Lewis and the News (2)
Van Hagar (eck)
ZZ Top
Sting
REM (5, soon to be 6)
They Might Be Giants (5)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Mason Ruffner
Pseudo Echo (!)
Dead Milkmen
Hootie and the Blowfish (2)
U2
Pink Floyd
Jayhawks
Uncle Tupelo (met Tweedy, nice)
Lemonheads
Maggie Estep (does that count?)
Smoking Popes
Bruce Springsteen (7)
Beck
Jesus Jones
Atari Teenage Riot
Black Crowes
Honeymoon Suite (!)
Aerosmith
Page/Plant
Radiohead
Patti Smyth
BTO
Starship (worst sound ever)
David Lee Roth
1st Lollapalooza, and later the one with Metallica
The Alarm
The dB's
Metallica (1st North American show of the Black Album tour... sweet!)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Lenny Kravitz
Kenny Rogers
Crystal Gayle
Glen Campbell
B-52's
Bottle Rockets
Grateful Dead
Matthew Sweet
Warren Zevon (solo, acoustic, awesome)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Social Distortion
Sonic Youth
Harry Connick Jr.
Rush
Primus
Bon Jovi
Skid Row


Hm, that's all I can remember. I'm kind of impressed with myself for coming up with that many. I was sober for most of them, so I guess that helps.

 

[MartinTeller]

Ah, Christopher's list reminded of another one I forgot. Saw REM on the Green tour. Opening act was Indigo Girls, before they were semi-famous.

 

[Dan Stone]

As with many others here, the list is too long to be posted here in it's entirety, so I'll just offer some of my favorite highlights:

First concert: The Brady Bunch in 1971. I was five and my parents took me and my brother to see them perform at one of our local fairs when they went on one of their brief concert tours. Still remember them flying in on a helicopter and having the VERY colorful outfits like they had when they performed on the TV show.

Best concert: Judas Priest with Slayer opening on the last night of the Ram It Down tour in 1988. JP has always been my favorite band, and I've seen them several times, but they were a notch above this night. Halford's vocals were just amazing and his performance this night still ranks as the greatest vocal performance I've ever heard live with my own ears. It was also the first time of many that I got to see Slayer and they were also in superb form this night touring behind their favorite album of mine, South Of Heaven. Close second for best concert goes to L7/Love Battery/7 Year Bitch in a very small club in 1993.

Greatest number of times I've seen one group: I saw 7 Year Bitch twenty-six times between 1993 and 1997. Runners up: The Pleasure Elite (8x), Metallica (7x) and several groups all at 5x (Pantera, White Zombie, Slayer, L7, Joan Jett and on and on).

Most violent concert: Pantera with Trouble at a small club in 1991 (nearly got hit in the head by flying beer bottles two separate times during the show). Close runners up: White Zombie at the same club when someone set off pepper spray in the pit and a fifty foot diameter circle of us ended up choking and gasping for air on the ground and the show had to temporarily stop, Pantera at a medium sized venue when someone got stabbed in the back next to my car in the parking lot after the show was over.

Coolest concert to have been lucky enough to be at: Foo Fighters (unannounced) with Presidents Of The USA opening at Satyricon in Portland (holds about 300 people max). The show was a benefit concert for the Mia Zapata murder investigation fund with PUSA and a 'special suprise guest headliner.' I went to the show because I really wanted to see PUSA as they were starting to get a name locally (this was before their first album came out). Showed up a little early for the show and was very surprised to find I was the first person in line. Consequently, I got to be dead center, front row, right against the stage. Krist Novoselic was at the show watching from the side of the stage and MTV (plus Rolling Stone and several other rock mags) was there with a camera covering the whole thing as it turned out to be Foo Fighters first public performance. Dave Grohl was actually out mingling with the crowd during the PUSA performance which was quite refreshing to see. Close runner up: Feel very fortunate to have gotten to see Evil Stig's first two live performances (which were recorded and released as an album) and was quite honored to get to meet Joan Jett (long-time favorite artist of mine) at an in-store signing before the show:



Group I most would like to go back in time to see at their prime: Led Zeppelin on one of their 'on' nights during the 1975 tour.

Sadly, I feel exactly like Ralph Summa posted above at the end of his post, and have now not attended a concert for about five years (after seeing Marilyn Manson for the third time). I feel like I've pretty much gotten to see all the groups that were still in existence that I was interested in seeing and I'm very thankful that I've been fortunate enough to do that. Hopefully, new music will once again get to the excitement level that I once had for it and I will again feel compelled to get out and see some different groups in concert, but I'm certainly not holding my breath for that to happen at this point.

Dan

 

[Zen Butler]

Steve Roach
P J Harvey
Queensryche
Metallica
L7
the Cure
Jane's Addiction
Rush
Candlebox(yuck)
Johnny Cash
Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods
Bay City Rollers
Bjork (my favorite live show)
Sonic Youth (a close second)
Black Sabbath
Pantera
Incubus
Joshua Redman
Spyro Gyra
Cassandra Wilson
Ben Harper
Wild Child (if that counts, always a fun show)

many, many more

 

[Jeremiah]

Pink Floyd
The Steve Miller Band
Steppinwolf
Primus
Danzig

 

[chung_sotheby]

Phish
Dave Matthews Band
Disco Biscuits
Dispatch
Guster
Government Mule
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Worked Security)
Outkast
The Roots
Paul Simon
Mobb Deep
Mos Def
Eminem
Pharcyde

Best Concert: Outkast, by far. Most electric atmosphere I have ever been to

 

[David Rubenstein]

I've seen a lot of these bands multiple times (I had to really think about this...)


Bruce Springsteen
Kinks
Graham Parker
Violent Femmed
Ramones
Blondie
Tom Tom Club
Lemmonheads
Buffalo Tom
Sex Pistols
Erasure
English Beat
Big Country
Thompson Twins
Paul Young
Nik Kershaw
UB40
Midnight Oil
Hooters
Robert Hazard
Warren Zevon
Rush
Squeeze
Duran Duran
Split Enz
10,000 Maniacs
Billy Bragg
Jackson Browne
Joe Jackson
John Mellencamp
Heart
Men at Work
Fleetwood Mac
Police
Go Go's
J Geils Band
Cars
Nick Lowe
Tom Petty
Replacements
The Waterboys
U2
Aztec Camers
Depeche Mode
Blind Melon
Big Audio Dynamite
Public Image LTD
Live
Los Lobos
Howard Jones
Marshall Crenshaw
B 52's
Barenaked Ladies
Ben Folds Five
Llotd Cole
Jill Sobule
Finn Brothers
Crowed House
Tim Finn
Beautiful South
Belly
Ringo Starr
Monkees
Big Country
Michelle Shocked
Billy Joel
Crash Test Dummies
Culture Club
Human League
David Bowie
Cure
Dave Edmunds
Utopia
Todd Rundgren
DB's
REM
Indigo Girls
Dire Straits
Don Dixon
John Hiatt
Marti Jones
Everything but the Girl
Francis Dunnery
Frank Black
The The
General Public
Happy Mondays
Jesus Jones
Steve Miller Band
Harry Connick Jr
Peter Gabriel
Psychedelic Furs
Richard X Heyman
The Smiths
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Steely Dan
Steve Winwood
Stray Cats
X

 

[Eric Peterson]

I'm so jealous of some of the above people, that I can't even describe it.

Anyway, my first concert was about 12 years ago and I've seen all of the below plus more that I've forgotten.

• Metallica (2x on Black Album Tour)
• Metallica w/ Danzig & Suicidal Tendencies
• Anthrax w/ White Zombie & Quicksand
• Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream Tour)
• Pantera w/ Sepultura & Biohazard
• NIN & David Bowie
• Ozzy w/ Fear Factory
• Weezer
• Tool (Aenima & Lateralus Tours)
• GWAR
• Lollapalooza (Tool & Tricky)
• Lollapalooza (Metallica, Ramones, Soundgarden)
• Ramones
• White Zombie
• Toadies
• Megadeth w/ Suicidal Tendencies
• Jane's Addictions (1st Reunion)
• Rage Against the Machine (Evil Empire Tour)
• Warped Tour (Quicksand & L7)
• Deftones & Quicksand
• Beastie Boys & Tribe Called Quest
• Ozzfest (Tool, Megadeth, System of a.., Melvins)
• Rockstock (Faith No More)
• Q101 Fest (Faith No More)
• Faith No More (Final Tour)
• Primus (5x)
• Clutch (10x at least)
• Slayer (2x)
• Mr. Bungle (3x)
• Fishbone (2x)
• Live
• A Perfect Circle
• PJ Harvey
• Tricky
• Melvins
• Jackyl
• Oysterhead
• Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
• Hank III (2x)
• Fantomas (2x)
• Tomahawk & Melvins
• Iron Maiden, Dio, & Motorhead

I'm sure there are a few others that I've forgotten also. All in all some very positive experiences. I met my idol Mike Patton outside of one of the Mr. Bungle concerts. I have also accidentally seen "Limp Bizkit" 5x at various festivals and shows where I was there to see the opening band or the band that they were opening for.

 

[Tim Hoover]

Damn you all! I never get to see a lot of concerts...

I never miss a U2 tour

Willie Nelson @ Billy Bob's in Ft. Worth - free!

Page & Plant

Firehouse at our little rinkydink summer festival - also free, and backstage passes! Those guys might not have the audience they once did, but they put on one helluva show

next up: Staind in Memphis on Oct 3 - free again. I'm on the guestlist

 

[Peter Mazur]

First show I saw was KISS in 1984. Queensryche opened for them.

Since then:

Motley Crue
Loudness
Joan Jett
W.A.S.P.
Van Halen
The Bangles
Cutting Crew
Peter Gabriel
Yes
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Toy Matinee
Steve Hacket
Camel
IQ
Arena
Fish
Marillion
Spock's Beard
The Flower Kings
Enchant
Robert Plant
Landberk
Seal
Pendragon
Ace Frehley
Adam Ant
Mr. Dog
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Y&T

Probably a few others I'm forgetting.

 

[Luis Esp]

I've seen many artists over the years and my last one was Jason Mraz. Wow, can that boy sing!

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Here's what I can remember. Some were festival or opening act type gigs, some I have seen multiple times:

Moody Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Rush
Pat Travers
The Firm
Robert Plant
R.E.M.
Public Image Limited
Robyn Hitchcock (solo acoustic & w/the Egyptians)
Eric Clapton
A Tribe Called Quest
David Bowie
Beastie Boys
Camper Van Beethoven
The Smiths
Morrissey
The Replacements
Phranc
The Cure
U2
Echo & the Bunnymen
Hoodoo Gurus
Peter Murphy
Nine Inch Nails
Marshall Crenshaw
Lone Justice
Maria McKee
Squeeze
Wilco
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Elton John
Yes
New Order
Billy Bragg
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Cowboy Junkies
Michael Hedges
Vic Chestnutt
The Funk Brothers
George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars
Smashing Pumpkins
Emmylou Harris
Buddy & Julie Miller
Keb Mo
Todd Snider
Iris Dement
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paula Cole
Doc Watson (once with David Grisman, too)
Luscious Jackson
Throwing Muses
Radiohead
10,000 Maniacs
Crowded House
Richard Thompson
Squeeze
Dio
Jason and the Scorchers
Bryan Adams
Ratt
Matthew Sweet
Indigo Girls
Metallica
Guns and Roses
The Nields
Moxy Fruvous
Eddie from Ohio
Peter Yarrow

Keepin' the spousal unit happy hall of shame:

John Secada
Marc Anthony (actually not as bad as I thought it would be)

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Four Tops / Temptations

Craig,
If you get a chance, post a little about the show. It's a shame that Levi Stubbs isn't healthy enough to tour right now, but I hear they have been putting on some great shows. The amazing G.C. Cameron is the current lead vocalist for the Temptations, and I'm curious how that is working out.

Regards,

 

[Brian Burgoyne]

Teagarden and Vanwinkle (Bob Segar's mid 60's backup band)
Badfinger
Guess Who
Jethro Tull
Marshall Tucker
J. Geils Band
Foghat
Buddy Miles
Dr. John
Neville Brothers
John Prine
Roy Buchanan
Frank Zappa
Flying Burrito Brothers
Freddie King
BB King
Albert King
John Lee Hooker
Hubert Sumlin
Stevie Ray Vaughn (in the early years as Triple Threat Revue with Angela Strehli, and then Double Trouble many times in Austin-smoked a doobie with)
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Paul Ray and the Cobras
Doug Sahm & Texas Tornados
Asleep at the Wheel
Roky Erikson
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Merle Haggard
Leon Russell
Pointer Sisters
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Townes Van Zandt
Jerry Jeff Walker
The Band
Fleetwood Mac
Jimmy Buffet
Bobby Bare
Ray Price
Ernest Tubb
Michael Martin Murphy
Nanci Griffith
Bonnie Raitt
Dire Straits
Joe Cocker
Genisis (1978)
Bob Marley
Spyro Gyra
Mose Allison
Dave Brubeck
Jerry Garcia Band/Greatful Dead
Bob Dylan
Eric Johnson
Delbert McClinton
Marcia Ball
The Flatlanders: Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmour
Robert Cray
Richard Elliot
Tish Hinajosa
Kinks
Allman Brothers
Moody Blues
Emmy Lou Harris
Iris Dement
Men at Work
Jackson Browne
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Commander Cody
Santana
David Alan Coe
Guy Clark
Bobby Bridger
Waylon Jennings
Charlie Pride
Bob Segar
Bowling for Soup
George Jones
Little Feat
Loudon Wainwright
Jon Anderson
Steve Miller Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Uncle Walt's Band
Steve Fromholtz
BW Stevenson
Buggs Henderson
Uranium Savages
Brave Combo
Beto y los Fairlanes
Chicago
Doug Kershaw
Charlie Daniels
Robert Palmer
Dave Mason
Acoustic Alchemy
Pat Metheny
Steve Forbes

 

[Tony-B]

Bowling for Soup

How were they? Did they happen to play their cover version of I Ran (So Far Away)?

BFS rocks!

 

[Matt Butler]

Too many to count.

Ill do my best.

Most memorable:
Page/Plant Clarksdale tour. (3rd row center stage)
Pink Floyd
Paul McCartney
Ac/Dc (10 row floor)
Elton John (10th row floor)

Others
Bon Jovi
Goo Goo Dolls
Def Leppard
Testament
Rob Zombie
Ozzy
Black Sabbath (original lineup)
Eagles (95)
Moody Blues
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
Cypress Hill
Beastie Boys
Hole
Pantera (Ozzfest)
Disturbed
Korn
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones
Neil Diamond
Tool
Aerosmith
Fuel
Papa Roach
Perfect Circle
Kid Rock
System of a Down
Godsmack
Static X
Powerman 5K
Dio
Motorhead
Linkin Park
Creed
Full Devil Jacket
Luxt
Kiss (original lineup w makeup)
ZZ Top
Van Halen (with Hagar)
Joe Satriani
Fear Factory
Sarah Mclachlan (Radio Show, got to talk to her)
Queensryche (They did Mindcrime in its entirety)



Im sure I might be forgetting a few.